AI Hardware & LLM Intelligence

Buyer pays $350 for broken RTX 4090 project only to find realistic fake GPU die and swapped memory — Russian repair specialist reveals sophisticated new cam using dummy PCBs

A customer paid approximately $350 for what appeared to be a repairable RTX 4090, only to receive a fake GPU with components that were painstakingly designed to...

Dev used AI agents and more than 500 billion tokens to rebuild Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's source code

Maurice Heumann's Claude and Codex agents rebuilt Modern Warfare 2's source; 83% of functions match the original byte for byte.

Walmart has slashed $750 off this RTX 5060 gaming laptop, now 40% cheaper

Save $750 on this HyperX Omen 15-inch laptop.

Upgrade to OLED with this $384 deal on Asus' 27-inch Republic of Gamers WOLED gaming monitor

Save 36% on the 27-inch Asus ROG WOLED gaming monitor at Amazon.

Redditor unknowingly buys stolen rental PC, and it gets remotely blocked by rental firm

Fragile, NZXT's PC rental partner, helped a Redditor who got scammed into buying a "stolen" computer that eventually got blocked by replacing it with a new one.

Reddit user pays $35 for a crypto mining rig left in a garage and gets 54GB of VRAM at 65 cents per GB

A Reddit user bought a nine-GPU Nvidia P106-100 mining rig with 54GB of VRAM for $35 and ran Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on it locally.

Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%

PlayStation sales dropped by 25% YTD compared to last year, while Xbox contracted by 33%, marking the biggest decline in retail sales over the past decade.

Cyberleek threatens full GTA 6 build leak unless Take-Two apologizes and his $30 million crypto memecoin goal is met

Notorious GTA VI leaker Cyberleek is threatening to release a full build of GTA VI if Take-Two doesn't release a physical build, but only if its memecoin hits $...

Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles

Canadian YouTuber Anthony Sistilli says police questioned him after he built an ALPR camera designed to track police vehicles, leading to an ironic discussion o...

Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters

Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak

Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.

Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol

Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.

How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed

LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.

Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI

With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.

The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself

Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

Multimodal open d1 decision models for the edge

Introducing Falcon ASR

One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO

Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games

Playground is a new experimental gaming platform that lets you create, play, and share custom games.

Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?

Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a lau...

48 hours to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — hear directly from the people building what’s next

Less than 48 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in San Francisco’s Moscone West. Save up to $100 on your pass before prices increase at the door, plus get 50...

Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI

When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would ...

Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?

On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.

These execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yet

Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break

Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating

I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major...

Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’

In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we ca...

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’

In a Saturday morning post, Microsoft's CEO wrote that it’s time “to step back and assess the trust architecture” of AI.

Apple discloses deal to hire team and license tech from personalized podcast startup Huxe

Is Apple hoping to get into the AI-generated podcast business?